Ms 21
Tu July 21.
- Exactly half moon above the garage from the couch. 8:40. Yellowy.
- W July 22
- HB 5:19 at feeder. Speaking. Squeaking.
- 6:50 sun is up. Sputtering beginning of cicada doing. Like a rough small gasoline engine starting. It flies by! My window. Maybe in mouth of someone?
- Half moon in blue sky. 2 o’clock at 4:30.
- Lots of tiger lilies blooming in the neighborhood
- Mourning dove with babies in gutter next door
Th July 23
- What I want most is… for each character in act 2 write a sentence that begins with…
- 6:52. Cicadas evening.
- Yesterday in parkway a small sycamore that had many shreds of bark.
F July 24
- First bird at feeder-house finch. Robin comes for a quick dip.
- Hearing mechanism of mourning dove call bc he’s right outside the window… like the air being blown thru the whistle, not just the whistle.
- Just saw mourning dove bringing some twigs to her gutter nest. the old brood left yesterday!
- 3:50. Bike to FB through Bemis.
- 4:10 arrive. Start walk Joe pye weed and tall small echinacea.
- 4:20 crossing the island bridge again. Muck algae thick ditch not a stream. It’s Ohio buckeyes. Fuzzy antlered deer. Still fields of blooming pink bee balm. First pods on milkweed
- 4:30. Small shelter.
- 4:40. Bench at top of hill. Some Joe pye 8 feet high. Section of Bellflower and Joe pie together the pink and the purple.blue heron flying low up stream. Over the ripples.
- 4/50 Robin Hood entrance.
- 5:00. On asphalt. Doing figure 8. Another great blue heron stalking. Head parallel. And here geese standing in creek only -ankle high. Cardinal flower in low places by water. More vibrant thicker stem than in my yard.
- 5:10. Heading north on darker forest path. Little maple with new growth of many small leaves lighter green. Fly fisherman, casting just downstream from the flat bridge in the middle of salt Creek and something that looks like a pool because he’s up to his knees and everything else looks like it’s ankle deep
Sat
- Sycamore bark thin filling side yard. Enough to be raked.
- Two mourning doves come to bird bath together.
Sunday. July 26
- Goldfinch in black eyed Susan’s
Monday
- The main affliction of civilization is that we don't know how to handle suffering inside and so we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption.~Thích Nhất Hạnh
Tu July 28
- Flowering shrub in back yard. Meadowsweet. Spirea alba.
- Raspberry blossoms again. Bees are at them.
- Full moon. Yellow.
Fri. July 31
- At FB. 2:30. Drizzle.
- Flowers in bloom: blue vervain, wild senna (yellow), bluet/ bachelors button (in the middle meadow)
- That corner of the property with the Joe pie weed in the Bellflower now both dimmed the number one color is yellow of small black-eyed. Susans has faded to a lighter pink but more slowly than Joe pie weed which really seems pretty done at this point.
- Cardinal flowers with a thick, thick stem of flowers, almost thick as a wrist
- Sounds today, Ruffles of water salt Creek pretty low considering the 3 inches of rain four days ago the sound of rain drops on the forest leaves songs, sparrows, Blue Jays, wind, and high in the Cotton Woods
- From the dark forest path out to a great field of blooming yellow
- A great fat trunk Hickory stands most on its own in this darker section on the east side of the salt Creek
- A number of short cardinal flower with just two or three or four down on the north side of the salt Creek along with corn flower Cohen flour and rudbeckia Rebecca and older milkweed now with pod
- Blue heron with backwards, bending legs like sticks walks through the salt Creek above the ripples in a flat section dotted with occasional drizzle raindrops
- Now on the south side in the low part, a whole patch of fat cardinal flowers
- Superman by Black Coffee played at one of the shelters, all Black people wearing white T-shirts maybe clean up from a party
- Black walnuts and small branches taken down in a recent storm, very fragrant black wall
- Raindrops raindrops circles in South Creek are pulled towards the ripple rapid
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